You might be a bladesmith if...

You might be a bladesmith if you tell your wife, " Your sister's wedding isn't until 1PM, so I'll just go out to the forge for an hour or two."

Stacy
 
bladsmth said:
You might be a bladesmith if you tell your wife, " Your sister's wedding isn't until 1PM, so I'll just go out to the forge for an hour or two."

Stacy
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you might be a bladesmith if your girlfriend has a sword belly ring ;)
 
My wife pointed out a couple-

You might be a bladesmith if your wife has threatened to jam a batch of Parks $50 flavored cookies in a place you don't want them!

You might be a bladesmith if your wife knows the only two cleansers at the local store that can remove ferric chloride stains from a kitchen sink.

You might be a bladesmith if your wife knows what "Blade show hands" are.

You might be a bladesmith if you are one of the few human beings still on Earth that can actually say "Do you smell mammoth? I smell mammoth." Only to find out that sure enough there are mammoth scales on a table in that room.
 
JTknives said:
you might be a bladesmith if you have little burn blisters all over your arms

you might be a bladesmith if when you look at a large chunk of steel you see a knife not the chunk steel.

you might be a bladesmith if you buy your steel in huge rounds because its cheeper.

you might be a bladesmith if you draw pictures of knives in church :rolleyes::foot:.

you might be a bladesmith when you dont have to use oven mits to take things out of the oven.

you might be a bladesmith if when i cop talks to you he tells you not to put your hands in your pocket and stay in frount of him (ya had that one happen to me)

you might be a bladesmith if you ask the wife if its ok to put your blade in with the food thats cooking in the oven.

you might be a bladesmith if you think any hammer under 3 pounds is for wimps.
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I'm Guilty of Every Single One of These...
 
Kevin R. Cashen said:
You might be a bladesmith if your wife knows the only two cleansers at the local store that can remove ferric chloride stains from a kitchen sink.
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Ok....which two cleansers Kevin? Inquiring minds want to know! :)

You might be a bladesmith if...

...you refuse to use restaurant steak knives because you prefer your meat cut instead of torn.
...you have more skin on your grinding belts than your hands.
...you look at cabinets, decks, dressers, or anything else made of wood and try to figure out the best way to replicate the grain pattern of a particular piece in steel.
...you run over a spare post vice in the yard with the lawn tractor while mowing.
...you have damascus scraps in just about every room of the house.
...you grin and answer "I make knives" when somebody asks what you do...at a work function...

-d
 
Kevin R. Cashen said:
You might be a bladesmith if you are one of the few human beings still on Earth that can actually say "Do you smell mammoth? I smell mammoth." Only to find out that sure enough there are mammoth scales on a table in that room.
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ALL of them gave me a good chuckle, but this one was too much for me to handle...A good 2 minutes laugh :thumbup:
 
bladsmth said:
You might be a bladesmith if you tell your wife, " Your sister's wedding isn't until 1PM, so I'll just go out to the forge for an hour or two."

Stacy
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My wife says "Oh yeah -that wouldn't happen . . . I don't have a sister:D
 
You might be a bladesmith if your wife throws her bra at you and you can catch it like you were wearing velcro mitts.

You might be a bladesmith if you race to work a full hour and a half early to wrestle 100 feet of un-managable 1 1/2" cable in your truck....and are exited about it!!

....if every one wonders "what the hell your making in there"
 
If you mess with folks heads by talking about steel as "fluid' and "squishy"- you might be a bladesmith

If the transformational moment in your career development involved a line of flux burns across your belly, caused your wife to buy you a leather apron, and left you grinning like a fool and not even noticing the line of open burns because your first forgeweld was successful, -you might be a bladesmith

-Page
 
You might be a bladesmith if, you do your fingernails, (or what's left of them) on the same belt you are grinding your blades on!!!!!!! :D
 
Dixieblade57 said:
You might be a bladesmith if, you do your fingernails, (or what's left of them) on the same belt you are grinding your blades on!!!!!!! :D
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Then the ladies at your wife's salon admire your nails, but are puzzled when you start talking about trizacts and 3m micron belts hehe.
 
Me: so when were ou thinking of leaving for the barbeque in Buffalo?
my wife: I really wanted to be on the road by now but we got up kind of late
me: so I should probably change out of my shop clothes . . .
my wife: yes unless there is something you *REALLY* need to finish before we leave
me: no, I was just going to work on some castings until you were ready
my wife: like was said on blade forums "my sisters wedding"
me: guess I'm a bladesmith :D
 
You might be a bladesmith if:

You dunk the steel when it gets too hot while grinding rather than your burnt hand.

You know better than to pick up something you didn't put down.... if it is near a forge.

You know that steel doesn't have to be red to be hot.

If you think that steel that is 300 degrees is pretty cool and when it gets down to 170 you will try to pick it up.

You don't mind telling a friend that you won't make him a hoof knife because he can buy one for $10.00, but you will stop working on a custom order to help a kid with a science project on heat treating steel.

People tell you how you ought to have made a knife and you ask them if they are placing an order.

You have a hammer that you like about as much as you like your dog and more than you like most people.
 
jkf96a said:
You might be a knife maker if your kitchen knives will shave arm hair.
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Or, you might be a bladesmith if your wife won't cook in the kitchen at church unless she brings her own knife.
 
You might be a blade smith if you can count all the nails in the sheet rock in you shop because they all have black fuzz hanging on them.

You might be a blade smith if trash day means it takes you twice as long as normal to get anywhere.

You might be a blade smith if you would rather make a trip to the junk yard than go to the movies.

You might be a blade smith when you tell everyone entering you shop "if its metal its probably hot".
 
you might be a bladesmith if you forge in your good fishing shirts

if sparks from fireworks fall on your hand and you don't notice

if you catch a pair of gloves on fire and you don't stop working
 
... if you're on a nature hike/camping trip with your kid, and find yourself looking over your shoulder to see if anyone's looking, when you see a killer-looking burl on an old-growth maple and are trying to decide if you can get away with sawing it off...

... if you go out to dinner with a lovely lass and scoff at the steak "knife", and promptly whip out your own EDC...

... when, despite your own numerous posts to the contrary, you stumble across a wrecked car and seriously wonder, "hmmmm, maybe I could make some knives out of those leaf-springs..."

... you visit a historical museum and can't help thinking, "Good golly, the woodwork is gorgeous... that sideboard would make beautiful handle scales..."

... you can't cross a rail-road track without remembering all you've heard about rails making good make-shift anvils...

... you're running errands with your lady and she automatically asks, "Are we stopping at Harbor Freight/Fleet Farm/Menard's today?"

... you go to a fireworks show and constantly quiz yourself: "Which metals make which color sparks?"

... your coworkers ask to borrow your knife daily, and get pissy when you say, "I could make you one just like it, then maybe you'd stop bugging me!"...

... your 10-yr-old's friend asks, "Why are your hands so black?!?" and your kid answers for you (like it's no big deal) "Oh, Daddy was working in the shop."
 
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James_Terrio said:
... you can't cross a rail-road track without remembering all you've heard about rails making good make-shift anvils...
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...or if you can't cross a RR track without looking down the line for cast off spikes, rail pieces, springs, etc. and then stopping to haul them home.
 
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